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Alexander Struck Image Head of IT Knowledge Cluster of Excellence Gestaltung An Interdisciplinary Laboratory How red tape and other obstacles are holding us back 1 Image About Knowledge Gestaltung An Interdisciplinary Laboratory Me


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How red tape and other

  • bstacles are holding

us back Alexander Struck Head of IT Cluster of Excellence

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An Interdisciplinary Laboratory

Me

  • leading a IT Team
  • research in citation network analysis
  • everything Open Science

IT Team Services

  • Private Storage Cloud,
  • Container Environment and Virtual Machines,
  • Consulting in Platform & Software Development,
  • Coding & Data Visualization,
  • New-Toys-Setup, First-Level-Support, ...

Cluster of Excellence at Humboldt-Universitiaet zu Berlin

  • 400+ people, 25+ disciplines
  • uncounted collaborations with academia & industry

About

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  • Surveillance Concerns 


GitLab documentation of activity is scary for privacy folk
 How does the RSE community deal with that?

  • Discrimination Concerns 


Same money for everyone regardless of skills
 Which argument trumps discrimination?

  • Software Quality 


Would you please come in for a pacemaker reboot?
 Using S* for studies because R is open source?

  • Reproducibility Issues 


code submissions at conferences as container images?!

Instead of an agenda, a list of problems

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  • Information Retrieval Problems


existing solutions ignored or not found
 Do RSEs use DIRTdirectory.org, re3data.org, ... ?

  • Responsibility Limited to Projects


dev frozen, access to software and data depending on availability of former project members

  • Software Sustainability is Questionable and Questioned


due to project & prototype orientation

  • Licensing


use of unlicensed code and not licensing published code

agenda ... continued

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  • Authentication Road Blocks 


local GitLab not open for collaborating developers

  • Development Process Concerns 


git what? security who?

  • Contractual Issues re Intellectual Property


projects can hardly own IP, it's always employer first

  • Cost of Maintenance ignored in Funding


Where is the money for hosting your important (abandoned) platform? Project orientation responsible for dumping results.

  • Red Tape


Charging other institutions for a (digital) service is nearly impossible due to bureaucratic commercialization overhead


agenda ... continued

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  • I had 1 application for an IT job because I'm not allowed to
  • ffer the money I'm entitled to according to the labor union

agreement

  • Medical research team wanted an 1 TB internal SSD instead
  • f 6 TB external RAID, because their software

miscalculates numbers when writing on a non-local file systems

  • My team touched a project where developers left us a year

ago but more functionality required for research

Last week

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Thanks for the attention! What are your concerns & solutions?
 Alexander.Struck@hu-berlin.de

  • Where should RSEs step in?

Q & A

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